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“CLOTURE MOTION” mentioning Richard J. Durbin was published in the Senate section on page S2541 on May 17.
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CLOTURE MOTION
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays before the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will state.
The legislative clerk read as follows
Cloture Motion
We, the undersigned Senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the motion to proceed to Calendar No. 58, S. 1260, a bill to establish a new Directorate for Technology and Innovation in the National Science Foundation, to establish a regional technology hub program, to require a strategy and report on economic security, science, research, innovation, manufacturing, and job creation, to establish a critical supply chain resiliency program, and for other purposes.
Charles E. Schumer, Maria Cantwell, Margaret Wood Hassan,
Tina Smith, Jeanne Shaheen, John Hickenlooper, Michael
F. Bennet, Patty Murray, Tammy Baldwin, Raphael G.
Warnock, Christopher Murphy, Robert P. Casey, Jr.,
Jacky Rosen, Ben Ray Lujan, Richard J. Durbin, Tim
Kaine, Jeff Merkley, Gary C. Peters, Catherine Cortez
Masto.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived.
The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the motion to proceed to S. 1260, a bill to establish a new Directorate for Technology and Innovation in the National Science Foundation, to establish a regional technology hub program, to require a strategy and report on economic security, science, research, innovation, manufacturing, and job creation, to establish a critical supply chain resiliency program, and for other purposes, shall be brought to a close?
The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.
The clerk will call the roll.
The legislative clerk called the roll.
Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar) is necessarily absent.
Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey) and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker).
The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 86, nays 11, as follows:
YEAS--86
BaldwinBennetBlackburnBlumenthalBluntBookerBoozmanBraunBrownBurrCantwellCapitoCardinCarperCaseyCassidyCollinsCoonsCornynCortez MastoCramerCruzDainesDuckworthDurbinErnstFeinsteinFischerGillibrandGrahamGrassleyHagertyHassanHawleyHeinrichHickenlooperHironoHoevenHyde-SmithInhofeKaineKellyKennedyKingLankfordLeahyLujanManchinMarkeyMarshallMcConnellMenendezMerkleyMoranMurkowskiMurphyMurrayOssoffPadillaPetersPortmanReedRomneyRosenRoundsRubioSandersSasseSchatzSchumerScott (SC)ShaheenSinemaSmithStabenowSullivanTesterThuneTillisVan HollenWarnerWarnockWarrenWhitehouseWydenYoung
NAYS--11
BarrassoCottonCrapoJohnsonLeeLummisPaulRischScott (FL)ShelbyTuberville
NOT VOTING--3
KlobucharToomeyWicke
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Heinrich). On this vote, the yeas are 86, the nays are 11.
Three-fifths of Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to.
The Senator from Rhode Island.
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